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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Attacks Early Helpless Individual
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Always Came Decisions Design
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Changed Culture Inherited Last
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

Apply Behavior Benefits Changing
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

Down Falls Individual Insist
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Avoid Been Behave Best
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

Abandoned Continue Deteriorate Environment
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

Behavior Committed Culture Deprivation
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

Decide Helplessness Hope Hopelessness
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In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

Counting Dead Drain Fruitful
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Life should be great rather than long.
Great Life Long Rather
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Different Eminent Great Man
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Achieve Avail Freedom Law
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Conflict Discrimination Full Fundamental
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

Better Every Game Going
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
Define Imperative Right
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Beyond Control Exchange Excuse
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The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.

Body Each Time Experience
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We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.

Cannot Choose Coming Contribute
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

Avoid Everyone How Learn
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.

About Act Avoid Because
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Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.

Also Causes Create Determine
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The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power.

Able Authentic Aware Become
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The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.

Characteristics Clarity Empowered Forgiveness
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Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.

Bill Billion Dollars Easily
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Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

Better Black Children Choices
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And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

Always Everything Necessary Need
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I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?

Because Comet Coming Complex
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

Another Any Connect Experiences
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The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

Authentic Become Characteristics Create
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Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

About Agenda Appreciated Deeds
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Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

About Agenda Appreciated Deeds
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Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.

Attract Caretakers Caring Community
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Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.

Depends Earth Entirely Everyone
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

Choice Fear Liberates Love
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

Authentic Calendar Come Creating
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Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.

Activism Begin Change Changes
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!

Choose Love Fact Grow
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Appreciation Awe Caring Contentment
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The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.

Active Choose Love Distinguish
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Freud never questioned the powerful participation of objective realities in the very constitution of human experience. Love, as he put it late in life, seeks objects. So does hatred. And those objects are external, not internal, agents of experience.

Freud Questioned Powerful Participation
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

Being Blocks Call Hypocrisy
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Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

Child Important Job Most
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
Happens Heart Simply What
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

Creation Each Feather Foot
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Back Being Communion Connection
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There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong.

Everything Go Right Seems
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Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.

About Alive Another Dead
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Grief Grieve Loss Only
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